File Roller

This article is about File Roller. For archive managers in general, see file archiver.

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment.^[4]

File Roller

File Roller 3.40 beta
Developer(s)	Paolo Bacchilega
Initial release	May 12, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-05-12)[1][2]
Stable release	44.3[3]  / 19 May 2024; 11 months ago (19 May 2024)
Preview release	n/a
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller.git
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	File archiver
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

File Roller can:^[5]

• Create and modify archives
• View the content of an archive
• View a file contained in the archive
• Extract files from the archive

File formats

Supporting the archive formats requires external back-end programs and libraries,^[6] it supports:^[7]

• 7z
• ace
• ar
• alz
• apk
• arj
• bin
• br
• bz
• bz2
• cab
• cbz
• cpio
• crx
• deb (read)
• dll
• ear
• epub
• exe
• gz
• iso (read)
• jar
• lha
• lhz
• lrz
• lz
• lz4
• lzh
• lzma
• lzo
• pkg
• rar
• rpm (read)
• rzip
• snap
• sit
• sqsh
• tar
• xar
• xip
• xz
• z
• zip
• zoo
• zst

Limitations

File Roller does not give the advanced options to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal, Low/Fast, etc.). This can be set however using dconf-editor, or the old gconf-editor on GNOME 2.

See also

• Xarchiver
• Comparison of archive formats
• Comparison of file archivers